{"id":130395,"date":"2026-02-09T14:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/shujaa-squad-for-opening-leg-of-hsbc-svns2-announced\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:02:49","slug":"shujaa-squad-for-opening-leg-of-hsbc-svns2-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/shujaa-squad-for-opening-leg-of-hsbc-svns2-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Shujaa squad for opening leg of HSBC SVNS2 announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kenya national rugby sevens head Coach Kevin Wambua  has named a 12 man squad for the opening leg of the 2026 HSBC Sevens Division 2 to be staged at the Nyayo Stadium between 14th and 15  this month.<\/p>\n<p>The Shujaa squad which was named on Monday is a blend of both young and experienced players.<\/p>\n<p>Olympians Nygel Amaitsa,Patrick Odongo,Vincent Onyala,Kevin Wekesa and co-captain George Ooro headlines the team with rookie David Nyangige who has earned his first international call up.<\/p>\n<p>Others in the team are Chrisant Ojwang,Festus Shiasi,Samuel Asati,John Okoth,Dennis Abukuse and Floyd Wabwire.<\/p>\n<p>Shujaa will face the USA, Canada, Germany, Uruguay, and Belgium in the two-day tournament in which they are competing after being relegated from the HSBC SEVENS.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/shujaa-squad-for-opening-leg-of-hsbc-svns2-announced\/\">Shujaa squad for opening leg of HSBC SVNS2 announced<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kenya national rugby sevens head Coach Kevin Wambua has named a 12 man squad for the opening leg of the 2026 HSBC Sevens Division 2 to be staged at the Nyayo Stadium between 14th and 15 this month. The Shujaa squad which was named on Monday is a blend of both young and experienced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}